Robert Liddiard is Professor of History at the University of East Anglia. His teaching and research interests are in medieval and landscape history, particularly the history and archaeology of high status landscapes (secular and ecclesiastical), the vernacular landscape, parks and hunting as well as aspects of tenurial geography.
There has been a strong demand for books in English on castles over
the last fifteen years...Liddiards book is based firmly on the
revision of traditional views.
*Speculum - A Journal of Medieval Studies*
It is a superb book that everyone interested in medieval
archaeology should read, because it describes why castles where
built and how they were used by people living in the area. It blows
away the cobwebs that still surround medieval siege warfare. It’s a
book about the uses of power and how a large and spectacular
building can attract attention over the centuries, simply by its
presence.
*Britain in the Middle Ages: An Archaeological History*
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